Nokia 800 Lumia Web Browser

The Nokia Lumia 800 runs Windows 7.5 Mango OS. And this OS in turn has the HTML5 browser. It's a pretty slick browser and it even features graphics acceleration. It integrates Bing search, can find text from images and translate it to any language you want. The UI also seems to be pretty fast and smooth. Check out the video to see for yourself. Read more about the Nokia Lumia 800 here.

Noreve Leather Cases for Smartphones and Tablets

Our friends at Noreve have undergone a facelift and are now back with whole new designs and features. These a include a cool new package in black and red as well as introduction of the new VIC card. Get your smartphone cases and tablet covers today. If you're in the market for an iPad case or an iPhone case do give them a visit.

Nokia Announce Lumia 800 and Lumia 710

 
Nokia have just announced their two latest top-end smartphones: The Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710. The phones come with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, courtesy Nokia's recent alliance with Microsoft, and are reportedly going to be launched with three times the marketing budget of any previous Nokia phone.

Let's have a look at both of the two phones, firstly the Nokia 800. This is essentially the Windows Phone version of the incredibly well-received N9, which unfortunately launched with the MeeGo operating system that Nokia announced that they were abandoning. The phone's hardware was top notch though, and it's great to see that it's been made available once again, this time with a properly supported mobile operating system.

The Lumia 800 comes with a 3.7" display, an 8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, and a capacious battery good for 9.5 hours of 3G talk time. The phone also has a dedicated audio co-processor, allowing up to 55 hours of music playback time. The phone is externally the same as the N9, which a shapely curved figure that is 12.1 mm thick and weighs 142 g.

Internally, you'll find average specifications, including 16 GB of internal memory (with no microSD slot), 512 MB of RAM. The processor is expected to be a single core 1.4 GHz affair.

The phone comes in black, blue and pink, and is expected to launch by early November at €420.

The Nokia 710 shares many of these specifications, but has a slightly less unique design. This handset packs a 3.7" ClearBlack display and slightly less internal memory, at 8 GB. The camera is also slightly worse, at 5 megapixels and the battery is less capacious, with just 7 hours 40 minutes of 3G talk time. Elsewhere, both phones pack the same 1.4 GHz processor and graphics chipset.

The Lumia 710 is likewise going to be launched in early November, but will cost significantly less at €270. As the two phones share very similar specifications, it'll be interesting to see if the 800's superior design merits its higher price point.

The announcements were made earlier this morning at Nokia World, Nokia's yearly expo for their latest handsets and software. Nokia also announced two other product lines; the Asha series of low-cost phones for developing markets and the Nokia Purity headset line co-developed with Monster.

Look for more coverage of Nokia World right here.

This post was written by William Judd. William writes for MobileFun.co.uk, the UK's leading online retailer of the sim free Xperia Play and Kindle cover.

Apple Updates iPad2 Smart Cover

We had today's MacBook Pro refresh, and now Apple has also updated its iPad 2 Smart Cover offerings.

 
New dark gray Smart Cover
Changes include: 

- Interior color now matches exterior color. The interior side of the Smart Cover facing the iPad screen had previously been a uniform gray color on all models with the exception of the (PRODUCT) RED version. All Smart Covers are now a consistent color inside and out. 

Printable Organic Circuit - print some chips

Printable Organic Circuit - print some chips

With the way things are moving, soo you might be able to print yourself your own personally customised phone. And they're organic too, so you don't have to worry about destroying the environment either. I wonder when they are going to bring out some Nokia flavored paper - I'd like to print out some superthin symbian gadgets.

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Samsung Transform Ultra

What big, wireless brother wants, big, wireless brother gets. With its pay-as-you-go subsidiary already packing this particular piece of mobile kit, it was only a matter of time before Sprint got its hands on theTransform Ultra. 


Officially announced for the third place carrier today, Sammy's Droid Charge with a QWERTY twist packs the usual array of mid-range specs. The 3.5-incher runs Android 2.3 atop a single-core 1GHz processor, with a VGA front facing / 3 megapixel rear camera, 512MB RAM, 2GB of storage and 1500mAh battery in tow. It's not 4G but sometimes you need a workhorse. Pricing and availability have yet to be released, although we're sure that bit of crucial info's right around the corner. Official presser awaits you after the break.

Free Symbian App: ShakeSMS

When you receive a new sms:

1. Normally without ShakeSMS:you need to unlock the phone first, then read the message, after replying, lock the phone again.

2. With ShakeSMS:you can shake your phone to read the sms, and control sms operation by gesture.

How to use:

1) Read the incoming SMS by shaking your phone.


2) Control SMS operation by gesture:

• Lean Left - Leave (delete) SMS
• Lean Right - Write (Reply) SMS
• Lean Up - Up to the SMS Folder In
• Lean Down - Done (Back to Previous Screen)

Supported models:

Nokia phones with accelerometer: Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, Nokia N96, Nokia E66, Nokia N85, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia N79, Nokia 5500 Sport, Nokia 6720, Nokia E72, Nokia E75, Nokia E52, Nokia E55, Nokia N97

Be sure that installation of unsigned apps is allowed (Settings => Applications => Application Manager => Set 'Software Installation' to All and 'Online certificate check' to Off)

Download ShakeSMS unsigned!(S60v3)

Download ShakeSMS unsigned!(S60v3 and s60v5)

Free Symbian App: Symtorrent

SymTorrent is the first and currently only BitTorrent client for Symbian OS.

It supports downloading multiple torrents at the same time, is capable of both downloading and uploading and can save the status of your unfinished torrents, so you can resume the downloads after restarting the application. You can also check the status of each file inside a torrent along with several other statistics and properties during download. Torrents can be started from the browser, and selecting the files that are downloaded from multi file torrents is also supported.

Supported models:

5700 XpressMusic • 5320 XpressMusic • 5630 XpressMusic • 5730 XpressMusic • 6110 Navigator • 6210 Navigator • 6710 Navigator • 6120 classic • 6121 classic • 6124 classic • 6720 classic • 6730 classic • 6220 classic • 6290 • E51 • E52 • E55 • E63 • E66 • E71 • E71x • E72 • E75 • E90 Communicator • N76 • N78 • N79 • N81 • N81 8GB • N82 • N85 • N86 8MP • N95 • N95 8GB • N96 • 6650 fold • 6760 slide • 6790 Surge

Download SymTorrent

Free Symbian Apps by The Pundit

Guys go get your weekly installment of free symbian apps from the Pundit at The Pundit Report.

Motorola Droid RAZR -- one helluva handset

Th Motorola Droid RAZR is the latest ultimate smartphone that is to come out of Motorolas lair. The Droid RAZR combines two winning arguments of Motorola - the superb OS which is the Android and the excellent design by way of RAZR. Keeping with RAZR the signature, this device is also hyped to be the slimmest smartphone available in the market right now.

Game : Modern Combat 3 for iOS on iPhone and especially iPad

IntoMobile got their hands on the upcoming Modern Combat 3. MC3 is a cool shoot-em-up from Gameloft that will be released for iOS. This new version will bring a bigger multiplayer up to 12 players, 6 maps, more weapons, enhanced graphics and it will be out on the October 27th. Check the gameplay video on iPhone and iPad.


Read more about Modern Combat 3 for iOS - iPhone and iPad

Launched: the Nokia 603

Nokia has just announced their latest smartphone, the Nokia 603. The handset, which runs on the new Android look-alike Symbian Belle operating system, sports a 3.5" IPS display and a 1GHz single core CPU. The handset is expected to cost €200, and comes in twelve colour combinations (two front options, and six back cover options).

Internally, you'll find all of the standard wireless and wired connectivity options, including GPS (no word if this is assisted GPS or not), Wi-Fi N, USB and Near Field Communication (NFC). The smartphone can also have its internal storage expanded by MicroSD, from 2 GB to 34 GB. On the camera front, there's a five megapixel rear snapper but no front facer, meaning no video calls. The video camera's capable of 720p video, but this doesn't make up for the lack of flash.


In terms of apps, the Nokia 603 includes a few interesting ones preinstalled: Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, YouTube and Shazam. 
The excellent Nokia Maps app is also installed, as you'd expect.


This is a fairly attractive phone, with some nice colour options and decent specifications, but the real question is whether Symbian Belle will prove to be a success; even with a few excellent Belle handsets it's hard to believe that they wouldn't do better with Android installed instead. Another issue is the fairly low resolution screen - 360 x 640 pixels isn't competitive anymore, particularly with flagship Android phones soon to come with a resolution of 1280 x 720.


The affordable if not incredible Nokia 603 is expected to be released sometime later this year, at approximately £175 in the UK.


This article was written by William Judd, who writes for MobileFun.co.uk, the UK's largest online retailer of iPhone cases.

How Nokia tests their devices

SurfCube Browser is an yet another browser for WP7 phones and news is that it's ready for the Mango version of Windows Phone 7.  Check out the video to determine if this one's for you.

For now, you can download the current versions of SurfCube in the Marketplace for FREE or for $1.99. The Mango version should be released by the end of next week as long as everything goes well. Thanks to Kinabalu Innovation Limited for publishing this great app and sending us the beta version!

Sony Ericsson is finished, Ericsson gets bought out

Sony Ericsson has always been one of the underdogs in the battle for portable gadget supremacy. It's been going on for so long that Sony has got fed up with the struggle and has finally decided to buy out the Ericsson half and thus end the joint venture. 



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Lenovo Ideapad becomes the Affordable Pad

In what seems like a common occurrence these days, Lenovo has just dropped the price on their Android-powered IdeaPad A1 tablet down to $200 via their website. The tablet was originally introduced at $350 back when manufacturers were a bit more optimistic on Android tablet adoption. This new price point seems to fall more in line with what is being actually being offered.


We got Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 single-core processor, 512MB of RAM all on a 7-inch 1024×600 resolution display. Unlike the similarly priced Kindle Fire, the IdeaPad A1 does come with a pair of 3MP rear/.3MP front facing cameras for quick snap shots or chatting. The IdeaPad A1 also comes in your choice of black, white, pink or blue flavors. For $200, sounds like a pretty good deal to me. What do you guys think?

Nokia Sun a.k.a Nokia Sea Ray

Nokia's biggest event of the year, Nokia World conference, is coming up fast. The event, which will be held in London on the 26th and 27th of October, typically offers Nokia a chance to show off its latest handsets and other technologies. This year, a number of Microsoft executives will be making an appearance at the event, suggesting that a number of Nokia-made Windows phones will be in evidence.

One of these will be the Nokia Sun, also known as the Nokia Sea Ray. The Nokia Sun runs Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), and has a fairly impressive laundry list of reported specifications:

• 1.4GHz processor
• 16 GB onboard storage
• 8 megapixel camera
• 3.7" AMOLED screen
• Unibody shell made of polycarbonate
• MicroSIM card

The phone is due to hit stores between the 7th and the 13th of November, so an announcement at Nokia World would be well timed. Be sure to tune into the opening keynote of Nokia World at 9AM on the 26th to see if Nokia CEO Stephen Elop will unveil the device.


This article was written by William Judd. William writes for MobileFun.co.uk, the UK’s largest online retailer of Nokia accessories.

iPhone 4S: Features, Launch Date, and Price

Shaasthra has posted an article about the new features, launch date and pricing of the upcoming Apple iPhone 4S. They talk about Siri, A5 and the works. Pay them a visit to know better. The new Apple iPhone 4S also features tweaks to it's antennas by way of a new evolutionary design that takes care of antennagate that plagued the previous apple iPhone 4. 

Battery Upgrade for Samsung Galaxy S2

Samsung has officially launched an upgrade (mod?) for the Samsung Galaxy S2 - an extended battery kit that holds a whopping 2000mAh of charge. The kit comes with the heavy duty battery and a modified back cover. The selling point is that this cover does not have the same ugliness that usually comes along with battery upgrades. In fact it only slightly increases the thickness of the phone. As you can see in the image, now the camera lies flush with the back cover instead of projecting outside. The new cover also provides increased protection to the handset from nicks and scratches.

Nokia Sabre and Nokia SeeRay confirmed

Nokia has been building up the hype on it's array of Windows 7 Phones for quite some time now. And now the the pieces are falling together. Microsoft Canada has gone ahead and leaked (and thereby confirmed) the presence of 2 Nokia handsets that will run on the windows platform Windows Phone 7.5. These two handsets have been named as Nokia Sabre and Nokia Seeray.


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